Bedfordshire Quotes & Sayings

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself. — Peter Jackson

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. — Chadwick Boseman

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. — Roger Ascham

Personally, I like films that make me a little bit uncomfortable because I think you're uncomfortable when something is real. — Alice Englert

Its particular interest for Ian, however, lay in its thesis about the history of the Dutch relationship to windmills, for it emphasized that these early industrial objects had originally been felt to have all the pylons' threateningly alien qualities, rather than the air of enchantment and playfulness now routinely associated with them. They had been denounced from pulpits and occasionally burnt to the ground by suspicious villagers. — Alain De Botton

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish. — Vince Gilligan

The choice for the early church was clear: either Jesus was just another failed messiah, or what the Jews of Jesus's time expected of the messiah was wrong and had to be adjusted — Reza Aslan

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened. — Monica Lewinsky

One story sums up their magical quality. On June 30th 1968, at the height of Apple optimism, Paul McCartney and Derek Taylor were driving back to London from Saltaire, Yorkshire, where they had been recording the Black Dyke Mills Band on a song of Paul's called 'Thingummybob'. They were in Bedfordshire. Let's pick a village on the map and pay it a visit, said Beatle Paul. He found a village called Harrold, which they found quite hilarious, and turned off the A5. Harrold turned out to be a picture-perfect village, with a picture-perfect pub at its heart. The pub was closed, but when the villagers saw there was a Beatle at the door they opened it up. Soon the whole village was in the pub, listening to Paul McCartney on the pub piano playing the as-yet-unreleased 'Hey Jude'. Every Harrold resident danced and sang along, and the revelry went on until 3 a.m. It was beautiful, perfect, spontaneous and full of love. Harrold. You couldn't make it up. — Bob Stanley

Great Stories for Children — Ruskin Bond

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale". — Eamonn Gearon

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies. — Jello Biafra

It reached a point where the paranoia was getting to me. Everywhere I looked, it seemed like people were hanging out, wanting to date, hooking up, wanting to hook up - it was relationships, relationships, relationships everywhere. Guys checking out girls, girls checking out guys. Dudes checking out dudes, chicks checking out chicks. Fuck! That's what being a teenager was all about. — Jess C. Scott

We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him. — Rick Warren

I watch a movie or a T.V. show or whatever; if it's good, I like to watch it more than once, and it's always fun to catch something you didn't see initially. — Judah Friedlander